Cope Cemetery
Lawn, Texas
GPS coords: 32.188478, -99.711868
From Beltway Drive South (FM 707) in Abilene, Texas, take US Highway 84 South 11.3 miles to the intersection with County Road 134. Turn left (east) on CR 134 and go 2.3 miles. Cope Cemetery is on the left (north) side of the road.
This old cemetery in south Taylor County was slowly returning to nature but the folks in the local area got together and removed trash, cut brush, filled holes and reset some of the head stones. Some new stones (6) for old graves were placed and there were two new burials since the last inventory. The 1977 inventory showed 32 legible grave stones and now there forty that can be read. There had been no real maintenance for several years and this cleanup/fix up is a welcome sight. Although the last burial was in 1998, this cemetery listing is considered updated through the year 2000 by Hugh Swift.
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes/Inscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cope, Catherine E. | 18 Dec 1850 | 9 Mar 1905 | |
| Cope, J. M. | 5 Jan 1827 | 14 Jul 1902 | |
| Cope, James M. | 28 Mar 1868 | 5 Apr 1892 | |
| Cope, Jesse R. | 24 May 1876 | 3 Apr 1955 | |
| Cope, Mary E. | 2 Oct 1833 | 28 May 1896 | wife of J.M. |
| Cope, Rachel | 20 Jul 1834 | 18 Apr 1889 | wife of John M. |
| Cope, Samuel A. | 5 May 1887 | 30 Sep 1904 | son of W.E. & C. |
| Cope, Stella | 20 Mar 1892 | 23 Jan 1896 | dau. of W.E. & C. |
| Cope, William E. | 28 Feb 1854 | 10 Feb 1943 | |
| Curl, Charlie Ann | 25 Sep 1852 | 18 Apr 1927 | |
| Curl, Jewell | 15 Oct 1891 | 11 Sep 1899 | dau. M.H.& C.A. |
| Curl, M. H. | 5 Feb 1837 | 24 Aug 1897 | |
| Curl, Richard Walter | 9 Nov 1883 | 23 Mar 1962 | son M.H & C.A. |
| Curl, Winnie | 16 Jul 1886 | 7 Jun 1904 | dau. of M.H. & C.A. |
| Hawkins, Ava | 16 Sep 1856 | x Apr 1919 | |
| Hawkins, Jewel | 15 Oct 1895 | 11 Sep 189x | |
| Henderson, Bennett | 29 Mar 1906 | 16 Feb 1910 | |
| Lackey, Edith Cathey | 17 Aug 1820 | 17 Dec 1912 | |
| Rippy, Homer | 25 Mar 1903 | 5 Jul 1903 | son of T.A. & L. |
| Rippy, Lillian H. | 29 Jul 1892 | 20 Dec 1913 | |
| Rogers, Nan C. | 1886 | 1951 | |
| Shaw, Catherine T. | 17 Feb 1959 | 4 Oct 1945 | |
| Shaw, Minnie Sewell | 14 Apr 1880 | 27 Jan 1947 | |
| Shaw, Neeta | 21 Aug 1880 | 28 Jul 1966 | |
| Shaw, R. S. | 7 Dec 1849 | 9 Oct 1918 | |
| Shaw, William M | 25 Jul 1878 | 26 Apr 1950 | |
| Smith Gail Thomas | 4 May 1925 | 16 Jan 1998 | WWII |
| Smith, M. E. | 25 Apr 1832 | 21 Apr 1894 | wife of G.H. |
| Smith, M. E. | 25 Apr 1832 | 21 Apr 1894 | |
| Spencer, A. H. | 28 Sep 1861 | 18 Jun 1926 | |
| Spencer, Clarence | 16 Dec 1885 | 15 Sep 1958 | |
| Spencer, Dora Lackey | 9 Dec 1861 | 15 Sep 1944 | |
| Spencer, Lula Baker | 26 Sep 1895 | 9 Aug 1962 | |
| Turnbow, Andrew | 3 May 1904 | 15 Sep 1904 | son of A.F. & J.A. |
| Turnbow, Andrew F. | 1862 | 1938 | |
| Turnbow, Ivy L. | 18 Dec 1888 | 24 Dec 1904 | dau. of A.J. & J.A. |
| Turnbow, Jackie A. | 1870 | 1949 | |
| Walker E. Jean | 1876 | 1908 | |
| Walker, Irb B. | 1875 | 1953 | |
| Walker, Vera | 1897 | 1978 |